Non-refillable bottle.



E. M. PINE.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 27. 1915.

Lggaga Patented Apr. 17,1917.

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EDWARD M. PINE, 0F PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD M. PINE, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Non-Refillable Bottle, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a device attachable to a bottle to render the same non-refillable, and it consists of a gravitating and fioatable valve within the neck of the bottle, the construction and operation of the same being hereinafter set forth.

The invention is satisfactorily illustrated in the accompanying drawing, but the important instrumentalities thereof may be varied, as long as they are included in the scope of the claims.

Figure 1 represents a longitudinal section of a non-refillable device for a bottle embodying my invention, including a portion of a bottle to which the same is applied.

Fig. 2 represents 'a similar section of the device showing the position of the members thereof when the bottle is decanted or over turning for dispensing liquor or fluid therefrom. I

Fig. 3 represents a perspective view of the guard employed.

Fig. 4 represents a section thereof on the line & 1 Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 represents a perspective view partly broken away of the valve employed.

Fig. 6 represents a transverse section on the line 66 Fig. 1;

Fig. 7 represents a perspective view of the valve seat and gasket employed.

Fig. 8 represents a vertical section of the mouth piece employed.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the figures.

Referring to the drawings 1 designates the neck of a bottle on the mouth of which rests the gasket 2, in which is an opening or port 3 forming a seat for the valve e which is contained in the amt iliary mouth piece 5, the latter being of tubular or cylindrical form, preferably of non-oorrodible material and resting on the peripheral portion of said washer 2, and being held tightly in place on the mouth of the bottle and secured firmly and fixedly thereto by the sleeve 6, whose upper end has Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 27, 1916.

Patented Apr. 1?, 1917.

Serial No. 100,225.

thereon the inturned fiange 7 which engages the shoulder 8 on the side of said auxiliary mouth piece 5, and whose lower portion has thereon the inturned knurls 9 and 10 which are swaged or otherwise pressed into grooves 11 and 12 in theside of the neck of the bottle.

The valve 4 is composed of the flanged base 13 of porcelain or other suitable noncorrodible material, and the body 14 of cork or other suitable buoyant material which is firmly held on said base having the side of its lower portion clamped by the surrounding flange of said base, said base being sufii ciently heavy to hold the valve under normal condition closed on its seat, as shown in Fig. 1, but allowing the valve to float in the overturned condition of the bottle as will be hereinafter described, said valve, however, when in closed condition presenting said base 13 of non-corrodible condition to the liquor below the port or opening 3 of the seat 2 for said valve.

It will be noticed that the base of the valve is of greater diameter than that'of the port 3 and its under surface is unbroken within its circumference, whereby said base in the closed condition of the valve rests directly on the wall of said port as its seat without other means for accomplishing the same. WVithin the auxiliary mouth piece 5 and resting freely on the top of the body of said valve 4.- is the weight 15 which is of the form of a ball of non-corrodible material adapted to roll or move from and to said top, it serving in the normal condition of the valve to load the valve so that it is held most positively on its seat, assisting the base 13 of the valve to that end. The valve and weight are of less diameter than that of the mouth piece so that liquor can pass said weight and valve when the bottle is decanted or overturned.

YVithin the mouth piece 5 at the upper end thereof is the guard 16 which is composed of a block or body of non-corrodible material of less diameter than the inner di ameter of said piece and has on its side the outwardly projecting vertically-extending ribs or beads 17 which are secured rigidly to the inner diameter of the piece 5, the heads being baked in said piece 5 to render it with its beads immovable in position.

Owing to said beads 17, passages 18 exist between the inner circumference of the piece, and the circumference of the body of the guard 16 is composed and between adjacent beads.

On the upper ends of the beads or ribs 17 are the heads 19 which rise above the body of the guard, which heads are adaptedto abut against the inturned neck 20 of the top of the piece 5 and separate or space said body from said neck forming the passage 21 which is in communication with the passages 18 around the body of the guard.

At the top of the neck is the nozzle 22 having therein the vertical bore 23 which comprises the outlet of the bottle at the mouth thereof from said passage 21, it be ing in communication with the passage 21 above the body of the guard, said bore being adapted after the bottle is filled to receive a suitable stopper for closing purposes. The heads 19 of the beads are inturned so as to form shoulders which overlap the top of the body of the guard, serving to prevent any upward motion of said body on tie beads and displacement from its set position,

even should the body be loosened by the blows of the ball valve and the pressure of the outflowing liquor when the bottle is overturned and preserving said passage 21, and preventing any possible closure of the lower end of the outlet bore 23 of the mouth of the bottle.

In the under side of the body of the guard is the concavity 2a which is above the weight 15 and separated therefrom sufliciently to allow said weight a certain amount of play, so that when the bottle is decanted or overturned it may enter said concavity, whereby it leaves the valve a and permits the latter to leave its seat and consequently open the port 3 for the proper discharge of the liquor from the bottle.

In order to prevent the valve dfrom contacting directly with the inner circumference of the auxiliary mouth piece 5, said circumference is formed with vertical or longitudinal ribs 25 so as to prevent clogging or sticking of the valve with or to the interior of said piece.

The operation is as follows:

After the bottle is filled with liquor, the auxiliary mouth piece with its appurtenances is secured to the neck of the bottle at the mouth thereof by the sleeve 6, all of the members being located as shown in Fig. 1.

WVhen it is desired to remove the liquor, the bottle is decanted or overturned as shown in Fig. 2, then the weight 15 rolls or moves from the valve 4 and enters the concavity 24; of the guard 16 as a stop. The valve 4.- owing to its constructive nature being immersed in the liquid in the piece 5 quickly leaves its seat 2 and so uncovers and opens the port 8, said valve then c0ntacting with the weight 15 as a stop. The liquor may now enter the piece 5 and flow around said valve, pass the weight 15, and enter the side passages 18 of the latter, and from thence enter the passage 21- at the top of said weight and so reaches the bore 23 of the nozzle 22 from which latter it is dispensed.

When the bottle is righted, the valve drops on its seat and the weight is imposed on said valve, said weight then loading said valve so that the latter is deprived of its possibility to float and open the port 3 should liquor be poured into the mouth piece 5 through the nozzle 22, hence the refilling of the bottle is prevented.

The amount of liquor poured into the mouth piece 5 will remain therein controlled by the valve as closed until the bottle is decanted or overturned, when said amount will flow out at the nozzle 22.

The guard 16 overhangs the weight and consequently the valve, and deflects laterally any implement inserted in the nozzle in an attempt to reach the weight and valve to open them improperly.

The gasket 2 while forming the seat of the valve 4 is adapted also to form a tight joint for the mouth piece and the neck of the bottle preventing leakage thereof.

Should an attempt be made to refill the bottle either by a vacuum pump or other device when the bottle is decanted or overturned, some of the liquor will enter the nozzle or. mouth piece from below, but it will cause the valve to rise owing to its buoyant nature, and seat itself upwardly against the seat 2 and close the port 3 of the latter, thus preventing the passage of the liquor through said port into the body of the bottle, it being noticed that the buoyancy of the body of the valve is sufficient to ,pvercome the weight of the base 13 which is hon-buoyantin its nature.

The flanged base 13 of the valve 4, has the body of the latter driven forcibly thereinto whereby the rim of the base' presses inwardly on the side of said body and holds the same tightly in said base without the employment of cement or other adhesive material, the latter being objectionable as liquor will dissolve the same and so loosen the body. 7

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a non-refillable bottle, a bottle, a gasket fixed in the neck thereof provided with a port therein forming a valve seat, and a valve formed ofa body of non-corrodible material comprising a base, and a flange on the side thereof rising therefrom, and a block of buoyant material seated in said body and having its lower portion compressed in said side flange, the base of the portion compressed in said side flange, said body being imperforate. base being imperforate and having its un- In a non-refillable bottle, a valve derside unbroken in dialnetrical direction. 10 formed of a base, and a flange of non- EDWARD M. PINE. 5 corrodible material on the side thereof rising Witnesses:

therefrom, and a block of buoyant material J OHN A. WIEDERsHEIM, seated in said body and having its lower N. BUSSINGER.

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Washington, D. U. 

